Michigan State University

Two Neag School faculty members in the Department of Educational Leadership have recently received funding - totaling more than $2 million - from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), as part of the latest round of grants issued by the National Center for Education Research (NCER)'s Education Research Grants Program.

Morgaen Donaldson, associate professor of educational leadership and director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) at the Neag School, was awarded a three-year, $1.4 million grant for a project titled "District Policies Related to Principal Evaluation, Learning-Centered Leadership, and Student Achievement."...

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